christiaan may
documentary photography

on titterstone clee (2014 - 2021)









Titterstone Clee Hill is the third highest hill in Shropshire, in the West Midlands of England. The upper slopes and summit are desolate and windswept, prone to fog and low cloud. The area is littered with the remnants of decades of quarrying, creating a scarred and terraced landscape, with strange industrial structures that loom out of the mist. The presence of man is evident through the ages, with hill-fort constructions dating back to the Bronze Age.




Latterly, the area has been used to quarry dhustone – ‘dhu” being Welsh for ‘black’, a dolerite used as an aggregate in road building. Man’s exploitation of the hill has left an eerie, almost lunar, landscape.
"landscape looking towards a mist covered Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"NATS radar domes on the summit of Titterstone Clee Hill"
"sheep graze on steep slopes on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"danger sign warning of deep water at a quarry lake on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"snow melt with a derelict quarry structure on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry structures and apparatus on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"old footings of quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"old footings of quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"two sheep stand against the skyline in the saddle between two hills, against a stormy sky"
" a man is seen walking amongst derelict quarry structures on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"a ewe and her lamb graze on an upland landscape as a stormy sky is seen in the distance"
"stone structures on Titterstone Clee Hill with the sun's rays in the background"
" a muddy track leads towards a view lit by the sun's rays on Titterstone Clee Hill"









Titterstone Clee Hill is the third highest hill in Shropshire, in the West Midlands of England. The upper slopes and summit are desolate and windswept, prone to fog and low cloud. The area is littered with the remnants of decades of quarrying, creating a scarred and terraced landscape, with strange industrial structures that loom out of the mist. The presence of man is evident through the ages, with hill-fort constructions dating back to the Bronze Age.




Latterly, the area has been used to quarry dhustone – ‘dhu” being Welsh for ‘black’, a dolerite used as an aggregate in road building. Man’s exploitation of the hill has left an eerie, almost lunar, landscape.
"landscape looking towards a mist covered Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"NATS radar domes on the summit of Titterstone Clee Hill"

radomes near the summit of Titterstone Clee Hill belonging to the National Air Traffic Services and the Met Office

"sheep graze on steep slopes on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"danger sign warning of deep water at a quarry lake on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"snow melt with a derelict quarry structure on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"derelict quarry structures and apparatus on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"old footings of quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"old footings of quarry buildings on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"two sheep stand against the skyline in the saddle between two hills, against a stormy sky"
" a man is seen walking amongst derelict quarry structures on Titterstone Clee Hill"
"a ewe and her lamb graze on an upland landscape as a stormy sky is seen in the distance"
"stone structures on Titterstone Clee Hill with the sun's rays in the background"
" a muddy track leads towards a view lit by the sun's rays on Titterstone Clee Hill"

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